Stand by Me by Rob Reiner(
Visual
)105
editions published
between
1986
and
2018
in
7
languages
and held by
3,091 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Explores friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up as four twelve-year-old boys set out on a two-day search for
a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. Set in the small Oregon town of Castle Rock
in the summer of 1959

Ready player one by Ernest Cline(
Recording
)23
editions published
between
2011
and
2018
in
English
and held by
1,579 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious,
and charming debut-- part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging
mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed

Star Wars : from a certain point of view(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
825 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders
and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really,
just take a look around the Mos Eisley cantina.) Never mind Han, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan. Who were these other
guys? What was their story? Just seeing them brought up questions for fans that sparked the imagination. In celebration of
Star Wars' 40th anniversary, this book shines the spotlight on those unsung weirdos, heroes, and villains with a unique, new
anthology. Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, brings together more than 40 authors for 40 stories. Each will be told
from the perspective of background characters of A New Hope -- from X-wing pilots who helped Luke destroy the Death Star to
the stormtroopers who never quite could find the droids they were looking for. There's never been a Star Wars book like it!

What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions by Randall Munroe(
Recording
)21
editions published
in
2014
in
English
and held by
739 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science,
technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions.
What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving
and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations,
pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor
operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict
the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. The book features new and never-before-answered
questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required
reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical

Star trek, the next generation(
Visual
)22
editions published
between
1987
and
2013
in
English
and held by
662 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Collects the original broadcast episodes from the first season of Star trek, the next generation

Star trek, the next generation(
Visual
)11
editions published
between
1990
and
2013
in
English
and held by
639 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Collects the original broadcast episodes from the third season of Star trek, the next generation

Armada : a novel by Ernest Cline(
Recording
)8
editions published
in
2015
in
English
and held by
629 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction
books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will
shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure. But hey, there's nothing
wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. He
knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don't get chosen to save the universe. And then
he sees the flying saucer. Even stranger, the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night,
a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada? in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien
invaders. No, Zack hasn't lost his mind. As impossible as it seems, what he's seeing is all too real. And his skills?as well
as those of millions of gamers across the world?are going to be needed to save the earth from what's about to befall it. It's
Zack's chance, at last, to play the hero. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking back to all
those science-fiction stories he grew up with, and wondering: Doesn't something about this scenario seem a little ... familiar?
At once gleefully embracing and brilliantly subverting science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could, Armada is a
rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read
before?one whose every page is infused with the pop-culture savvy that has helped make Ready Player One a phenomenon. From
the Hardcover edition

Star trek, the next generation(
Visual
)15
editions published
between
1992
and
2013
in
English
and held by
625 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Collects the original broadcast episodes from the second season of Star trek, the next generation

Star trek, the next generation(
Visual
)17
editions published
between
1990
and
2013
in
English
and held by
553 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Collects the original broadcast episodes from the fourth season of Star trek, the next generation. Picking up decades after
Gene Roddenberry's original, it follows the intergalactic adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew aboard an all-new
USS Enterprise

Strange weather : four short novels by Joe Hill(
Recording
)8
editions published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
538 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed
thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. In "Aloft" a young man takes to the skies
to experience his first parachute jump, and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prosperos island of roiling
vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own. Short horror stories that deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath
the surface of everyday life

Eureka(
Visual
)3
editions published
between
2012
and
2014
in
English
and held by
394 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Return to the small town with big secrets as the geniuses of Eureka venture beyond everything they've ever known in the fifth
and final season of one of TV's most beloved shows. From searching for the lost Astraeus crew to experiencing a disaster drill
that proves all too real, it's anything but life as usual in the seemingly idyllic town

War of the worlds : Invasion from Mars by Howard Koch(
Recording
)1
edition published
in
1994
in
English
and held by
287 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents Koch's radio play, Invasion from Mars, which was made famous by Orson Welles; the play is an adaptation of H.G. Wells'
novel, War of the worlds. This is followed by a short play which continues the theme in a more modern form

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow(
Recording
)11
editions published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
271 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Cory Doctorow's first adult novel in eight years is an epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death.
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin
Ellis Espinoza--known to his friends as Hubert, Etc--was too old to be at that Communist party. But after watching the breakdown
of modern society, he really has no where left to be--except among the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and
heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. Falling in with Natalie, an ultrarich heiress trying to escape the
clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society--and walk away. After all, now that anyone
can design and print the basic necessities of life--food, clothing, shelter--from a computer, there seems to be little reason
to toil within the system. It's still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities
hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators, animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways
flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultrarich have never been able to buy: how
to beat death. Now it's war, a war that will turn the world upside down. Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway
is a multigenerational SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years--and the very human people who will
live their consequences

The war of the worlds by H. G Wells(
)11
editions published
between
1994
and
2009
in
English
and held by
215 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents Koch's radio play, which was made famous by Orson Welles; the play is an adaptation of H.G. Wells' novel, War of
the worlds

Star trek, the next generation(
Visual
)7
editions published
between
1994
and
2016
in
English
and held by
213 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Set in the 24th century, Captain Picard and his crew continue exploring the universe in the U.S.S. Enterprise, seeking new
life and new worlds

The Secret of NIMH by Robert C O'Brien(
Visual
)3
editions published
between
1998
and
2006
in
English
and held by
212 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The tale of Mrs. Brisby, the timid mouse who becomes a heroine in spite of herself. She gets help in saving her family from
Farmer Fitzgibbon's plow from a crow, an owl and some intelligent rats

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest(
)7
editions published
between
2010
and
2015
in
English
and held by
188 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight
Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighborhood
outside the wall that's been built around the uninhabitable city. Life is tough with a ruined reputation, but she and her
teenage son Ezekiel are surviving--until Zeke impetuously decides that he must reclaim his father's name from the clutches
of history

Homeland by Cory Doctorow(
)12
editions published
between
2014
and
2015
in
English
and held by
181 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful novel Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by
the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco--an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole
movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's
economy collapses, but Marcus' hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform.
Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumb drive containing a WikiLeaks-style
cable dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff--and if Masha goes missing, Marcus
is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained
and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him--but he can't admit to being the leaker because
that will cost his employer the election. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him
as a hacker hero. He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's not at all sure
that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he's gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do.
Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they're used to inflicting pain until they get the answers
they want. Fast moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother--a paean
to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place

Toy soldiers by TriStar Home Video(
Visual
)4
editions published
between
1991
and
2002
in
English
and held by
171 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
When an exclusive boarding school is taken hostage by South American terrorists, the rebellious students risk their lives
in a desperate, deadly campaign to stop them

Redshirts : a novel with three codas by John Scalzi(
Recording
)9
editions published
between
2012
and
2014
in
English
and held by
171 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties
suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose